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From the VOC to the GMD, Formosa carved its own chapter in the harrowing saga of how Chinese coolies were cheated and were transported overseas in order to work the tobacco and sugarcane fields of racist, lowbrow European colonials and to the United States in order to work on the railroads as indentured or bounded laborers.

Why the 1949 Chinese political refugees exiled on Japanese Taiwan were called pigs — The alternative origin of a slur.賣豬仔 : sell piglets. The practice of selling indentured laborers. By extension, to trick, to deceive, to betray, to con.Deceive piglets — 賣豬仔https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/賣豬仔http://www.famouschinese.com/virtual/Chinese_Americanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Americanshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chinese_Americans

Zhi-Ren Pan (潘智仁) dedicates a fb page to the subject of deceived piglets in an effort to debunk the image of Han supremacy the GMD propaganda imposed on Japanese Taiwan. https://www.facebook.com/pgz000?fref=nf

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